Spitfire F/Mk.VII (Tartan Version)

[Ian M]

I would 'cheat' and make a decal.

Ian M

[Guest]

good luck polux, you must be mad, i would not even know where to start on masking a tartan camo

Me too..... :laughing:

[Guest]

I would 'cheat' and make a decal.Ian M

I hope you don't be angey with me Ian. You gave to me the idea of this madness.

It's a shared work, if you want! :thumbs-up:

Polux

[Guest]

I would 'cheat' and make a decal.Ian M

I think airbrushing it is the way forward! :smile1::scotland:

Laurie, mine seem to have shrunk too. I can still get into the one I got married in but its not comfortable - or pretty!

Keith

[Guest]

Keith and Laurie ... dont worry ... from looking at some of the young people around Edinburgh during the "Fringe", "Mini-kilts" are apparently fashionable.

Polux, what have you got yourself into here, i'm really looking forward to seeing this creation emerge.

[Guest]

Polux, what have you got yourself into here, i'm really looking forward to seeing this creation emerge.

Yes Pollux this is nearly as bazaar as taking on the unthinkable hypothetical building of an ME109 with bi plane wings & toothbrush skids. I did in my dreams, sorry nightmares, live this I awoke shocked ! But not before seeing it take off & --------------woke up.

Laurie

[Guest]

Hi Polux, Ignore all the talk of Tartans, it has to be a Clanranald, and the tail has to have a thistle emblum, O.K. go for it. Derek

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p.s. Only joking

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[Guest]

Hi Polux, Ignore all the talk of Tartans, it has to be a Clanranald, and the tail has to have a thistle emblum, O.K. go for it. Derek[ATTACH=CONFIG]51291[/ATTACH]

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Hi Derek! Can you explain more about the thislte please!

It's a complement? It's the final 'color' of tartan?

I understand I don't have to draw this flower... If not I do the 'cheat' of sticker... uppet:

Thanks for all, friends

Polux

[Guest]

its a scottish thing polux,like a national emblem

[Guest]

I have obtained it friends!!

Have the sequence to create the tartan!!

I have throw a small sample in a sheet of plastic.

First primed and then paint a coat of blue. I have put two sizes of type (3mm and 6mm). The major type is for the big squares and the 3mm for the wings of these. I have stuck the big, and then the small one successively in horizontally. Later the same thing superposed in vertical. The squares work out perfect, only it's necessary to cut with a cutter each one. This way I have painted little by little every square.

The result is gratifying!!

Tomorrow I will be able to publish a few photos that show the process (I have to buy a PC for my house ....). Probably it will look like to you a not 'polished" work, but it has been of great help for my, I have discovered many things that I must remember when I paints on the plane.

The sample is of 3X3 squares, very small!! This one is painted with brush, Without a lot of perfectionism, I have to say... (7 colors in 2cm ... the airbrush is better in the box !!)

The first conclusion is that the primed doesn't support the exit of the type, the fault is also a time of dried correctly. After primed the plane I will paint with a coat of varnish, then the first coat of color and varnish again.

The choice of colors is very important, on having done the sample in brush the colors are seen more intense and slightly homogeneous.

To be very careful with the cutter, not to spoil the sal of the plane or to mark a wound that would separate the union of both paintings.

I must paint one of the type of different color, to facilitate to see where it begins the small one and ends the major one (they go completely together).

The final lines of 1mm I'm not sure how end it, type or a felt-tip pen.

Well, it's better I stop here!!!

Sorry, I'm very deceived, and believe that I can obtain it.

Thanks for all

Polux

[mossiepilot]

Goodness Polux, that sounds complicated, and have you figured out how you are going to paint the complex curves like the wing root, that'll be something to see when you pull that off.

Looking forward to seeing it mate.

Tony

[Guest]

Hi Derek! Can you explain more about the thislte please!It's a complement? It's the final 'color' of tartan?

I understand I don't have to draw this flower... If not I do the 'cheat' of sticker... uppet:

Thanks for all, friends

Polux

As Andrew says, the Thistle is the national emblem of Scotland, just as The national Emblem of Spain is the Spanish Osborne Bull. For England it is the Rose, for Wales the Leek and Ireland the Shamrock.

Good luck, look forward to watching your progress as always. With your attention to detail, I am sure the results will be great. Derek

[Guest]

I would have thought that tartan paint would have been easier to use...

[Guest]

Andrew that is brilliant !

Ingenuity once again raises it self to new heights on this forum.

Laurie

[Guest]

You mean you haven't seen the tartan paint before?